Examples Of Psychoanalyticism In The Glass Menagerie

Psychoanalytic Implications Williams’ psychoanalytic narration in The Glass Menagerie covers the family dynamics of the Wingfield family. On one hand, the readers see that the entire family members share some amount of emotional and profoundly disturbing psychoanalytic problems. The father abandons the rest of the family and this leaves an emotional scar on Amanda, Laura, and Tom. Yet, the family does not deal with this deep-seated problem and Tom eventually replicates much of the behavior of his father. However, Amanda is the main character and she attempts to mend the family. The readers see that Amanda is the only character who attempts to find comfort in the past as she is probably the strongest of the remaining three Wingfield, despite

Much of William’s plays delve into the psychological disintegration as he looks closely at the frustrated and neurotic. These characters are often “depressed, fractured and unsecured; without intimate connection to other people and their environment,” (Shakouri, 4). Clearly, The Glass Menagerie presents a world where the characters face the disillusionment that comes with the present events in their lives. Amanda gains this disillusionment as she resorts to separate realities where she finds sanctuary. Amanda attempts to free herself from the various unsympathetic realities that remind her of the

Much of the events in The Glass Menagerie is expressionistic and this is clear in the description that in the production reviews that that play is a memory play. The belief in the play being one related to memory suggests that the major characters display mental processing of situations instead of a realistic presentation of the events that impact their lives. From a psychoanalytic perspective, one sees that Amanda’s inner visions form the foundations of the expressionistic drama and is in fact a psychoanalytical representation of the